Natural Disaster

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Jan. 14 that the first in a series of direct humanitarian shipments to Cuba “in close partnership with the Catholic …

The Laudato Si’ Movement-Washington State Chapter said it “holds all those affected in prayer. This devastation is heartbreaking.”

As of Nov. 4, a total of at least 75 were confirmed killed by the storm — 43 in Haiti and 32 in Jamaica

On the feast of All Souls, Catholics in Chicago joined in commemorating the great famine in Ireland that left more than 1 million people dead and began the mass exodus …

As Hurricane Melissa continued its devastating course through the Caribbean, Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, urged Catholics to pray for and support the …

Catholic faithful in Jamaica are responding with “a lot of prayer” as the island nation is battered by what analysts say may be its worst hurricane on record.

Catholic Extension Society’s 2025-2026 Lumen Christi Award winners “decided that this church would take on a new mission and purpose: reviving their school.”

Catholic dioceses in Alaska are calling for prayer and support, after flooding from a recent typhoon devastated several coastal communities.

“I was bewildered by the massiveness of the devastation [of Hurricane Katrina]…The only place I could go to was the Lord.”

We should not hesitate to fall to our knees, begging our merciful God for consolation for the families left behind and for salvation for those gone ahead.